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Idaho lawmakers want to make legalizing drugs more difficult

By KEITH RIDLER - Associated Press

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., pose after signing the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill during an enrollment ceremony on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, March 10, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Congress OKs $1.9T virus relief bill in win for Biden, Dems

By ALAN FRAM - Associated Press

Kentucky House Representatives Ken Fleming, left, and Jason Nemes, right, talk while fellow house member Kelly Flood makes a point via video conference during an education committee meeting on House bill 563 at the State Capitol in Frankfort, Ky., Thursday, March 11, 2021. (Pat McDonogh/Courier Journal via AP)

House passes bill to allow education opportunity accounts

By BRUCE SCHREINER - Associated Press

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., speaks after meeting with Senate Republicans, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **

House Democrats flood Senate with partisan bills in scheme to scrap filibuster

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., flanked by Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C., left, and Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal, D-Mass., holds a news conference ahead of the vote on the Democrat's $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 9, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Congress OKs $1.9T virus relief bill in win for Biden, Dems

By ALAN FRAM - Associated Press

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., walks through Statuary Hall, during the vote on the Democrat's $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill, on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, March 10, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

House passes Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

FILE – In this Nov. 18, 2020, file photo, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, middle, walks away from a plane before the start of a press conference at Toledo Express Airport in Swanton, Ohio. Republican lawmakers' latest in a year-long attempt to rein in DeWine's authority to issue public health orders during the pandemic passed in the House on Wednesday, March 10, 2021 ,and faces a likely veto by the governor. (J.D. Pooley/Sentinel-Tribune via AP, File)

GOP-backed effort to rein in DeWine’s pandemic powers passes

By FARNOUSH AMIRI - Associated Press

Oklahoma Republican apologizes for ‘colored’ babies comment

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Republican state Sen. Steve Vick addresses the House State Affairs Committee on Monday, March 8, 2021, in the Statehouse in Boise, Idaho. The committee approved legislation making it more difficult to get initiatives or referendums on ballots in what is seen as a rural vs. urban measure. (AP Photo/Keith Ridler)

Idaho House panel OKs bill to make ballot measures tougher

By KEITH RIDLER - Associated Press

Budget, smoke-outs and pot: Legislature enters its last days

By STEPHEN GROVES - Associated Press

Legislative leaders move to expel North Dakota House member

By JAMES MacPHERSON - Associated Press

NC House gives unanimous OK to $1.7B COVID relief measure

By GARY D. ROBERTSON - Associated Press

Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill and 15 other Republican secretaries of state told congressional leaders that their legislation would “blatantly undermine the extensive work we … have completed in order to provide safe, accessible voting options.” (Associated Press)

John Merrill warns bill will nationalize elections

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

House committees hear emergency order backlash bills

By HOLLY RAMER - Associated Press

Mississippi Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann reviews the progress made so far this session in the Senate with reporters at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss., Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Hosemann: Mississippi Senate will analyze House tax plan

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press

Members of the Georgia House of Representatives applaud the re-election of Georgia Speaker of the House David Ralston, R-Blue Ridge, during the first day of the 2021 legislative session at the Georgia State Capitol building in downtown Atlanta, Monday, Jan. 11, 2021. (Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

Bills pile up for Georgia lawmakers as key deadline looms

By JEFF AMY - Associated Press

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., center left, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., center right, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., right of Schumer, and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Calif., left of Pelosi, with bipartisan members of the House and Senate, hold a moment of silence for 500,000 U.S. COVID-19 deaths, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021, on the east front steps of the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Republicans test history in vote against pandemic relief

By STEVE PEOPLES - Associated Press

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Saturday, Feb. 27, 2021, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Kevin McCarthy bets his house on winning House GOP majority in 2022: ‘Not a chance’ of losing

By S.A. Miller and Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

Kansas state Rep. Sean Tarwater, R-Stilwell, makes a point during a legislative committee's discussion of an audit that said the state might have paid $600 million in fraudulent unemployment claims in 2020, at the Statehouse, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021, in Topeka, Kan. Tarwater is the House commerce committee's chair and has been highly critical of the state Department of Labor's efforts to combat fraud. (AP Photo/John Hanna)

Kansas plan puts $450M in COVID funds in unemployment system

By JOHN HANNA - Associated Press

In this May 15, 2019, photo, Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., speaks during a House Transportation Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) **FILE**

Peter DeFazio blasts ‘stupid’ ‘dead guy rule’ in debate over coronavirus relief

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times